“Songs of Life” is the theme of this third concert of the San Jose Wind Symphony’s Diamond Jubilee Season.
Highlighted will be Dutch composer Johan de Meij’s “Symphony No 4 “(Symphony of Songs), which was inspired by a variety of 19th century German poems as a tribute to the resiliency of the human spirit and is a metaphor for rebirth, new life and hope. Guest artists with the Wind Symphony for this piece will be Layna Chianakas, mezzo-soprano, and Vivace Youth Chorus with Peggy Spool, director
PROGRAM
Johan de Meij; “Symphony No 4.“
Percy Grainger; arranger Fred Sturm; “My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone.”
William G. Harbinson, arranger; “River Songs of the South.”
Joseph Wilcox Jenkins; “Symphonic Jubilee.”
Donald Grantham; “Southern Harmony.”
Conductor: Dr Edward C. Harris
“Songs of Life” is the theme of this third concert of the San Jose Wind Symphony’s Diamond Jubilee Season.
Highlighted will be Dutch composer Johan de Meij’s “Symphony No 4 “(Symphony of Songs), which was inspired by a variety of 19th century German poems as a tribute to the resiliency of the human spirit and is a metaphor for rebirth, new life and hope. Guest artists with the Wind Symphony for this piece will be Layna Chianakas, mezzo-soprano, and Vivace Youth Chorus with Peggy Spool, director
PROGRAM
Johan de Meij; “Symphony No 4.“
Percy Grainger; arranger Fred Sturm; “My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone.”
William G. Harbinson, arranger; “River Songs of the South.”
Joseph Wilcox Jenkins; “Symphonic Jubilee.”
Donald Grantham; “Southern Harmony.”
Conductor: Dr Edward C. Harris
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